[texhax] Why is a mouse when it spins, etc. ( censorship on miktex-list?)
Pierre MacKay
pierre.mackay at comcast.net
Thu Dec 30 19:18:59 CET 2010
On 12/30/2010 05:02 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
>
>
> Peter Davis wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
> > <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk <mailto:P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>> wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand, when asked "Why is a mouse when it spins ?",
> > I can answer "because the higher, the fewer" with complete
> confidence.
> >
> > I thought the correct answer was "One leg is both the same."
>
> I understand that in some parallel universes this is indeed the case.
> Odd that it should not be true for this one.
>
> "I saw a man upon the stair
> I looked again, he was not there
> He was not there again today :
> I /wish/ that man would go away !"
>
> Serious question, particularly aimed at Robin Fairbairns
> and others of his age/nationality :
>
> When I was a child, my father would recite to me :
>
> "As I was going through Jungle Jaini, Jungle Jaini Jaini-eye
> I thought I saw a jahocrapot, a-chasing his compaini-eye
> And so I took my ti-de-ma-tuc, my ti-de-ma-tuc, my taini-eye
> And I potted that jahocrapot, a-right through his compaini-eye"
>
> yet as far as I can tell, that otherwise source of infinite resource
> and sagacity the Internet has not heard of any one of these nonsense
> terms : has anyone else ?
>
No, but it sounds related to something I can only remember in patches:
As I went on my ???????????????, on Monday morning early,
I saw one Mr. Higmajig, come over the hills of parley,
But if I'd had my carley fairley carly fairley early
I would have been met with Higmajig come over the hills of parley.
(Google knoweth not)
On a slightly more serious (??) note--Does anyone reading this recognize
and know the source of...
"The sun rolls glibly, a great gilded hearse,
The moon wobbles and gibbers like Juliet's nurse."
I think I saw it in a Listener (BBC) some time in the late 50s or early
60s, and
I have searched desultorily for it for many years since.
Pierre
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